Liquid container and top therefor



C. S. BARON LIQUID CONTAiNfiR AND TOP THEREFOR Filed May 29, 1924 mmm" Patented Dec. 22, 1925.

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LIQUID CONTAINER AND T01 THEREFOR.

Application filed May 29, 1924. SeriaI No. 716,691.

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. BARON, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Tiifln, in the county of Seneca, in the State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid Containers and Tops Therefor, of which bility of the article and also its efliciency particularly from a sanitary point of view. lVhat constitutes my invention will be hereinafter specified in detail and succinctly set forth in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawing, I illustrate my invention in present preferred form of embodiment, with suggestion of one Or two of the many formal modifications of such embodiment as would naturally suggest themselves, and which are, therefore of course, contemplated within the scope of my invention.

In said drawing,

Figure I is a side elevation of the upper portion of a container with its top applied thereto, said top being shown by full'lines in the closed position, and by dotted lines in the open position.

Figure II is a View similar to Figure I, but taken at right angles thereto and looking at the container from the handle-supporting side thereof;

Figure III is a vertical medial section of Figure II.

Figure IV is a rear elevation of the top shown in Figure II, detached, and illustrative of my method of forming the clamping jaws thereof by slits formed in the skirt of the top;

Figure V shows, in manner similar to Fig ure I, a slight modification of the invention in respect to form of the container handle.

Figure VI shows in like manner a further modification.

wards, i

I Referring to the numerals onfthe' draw-t ing, 1 indicates a container body, which may be made of any suitable materiahpreferably glass, and of any preferred shape and .dimensions. i v

It is provided on one'side with 'a-handle 2, and upon the opposite side therefrom,

with a pouring spout 3, which preferably consists, in effect, of an expansion of the mouth or' open end of the container. 1 The upper edge 5 of the body is in the same plane with the upper edge of the spout 3, both being parallel tothe horizontal plane, as of a table top support.

The body ,1 is characterized by the pres ence, upon the handle-supporting'side of it,- of a cover-engaging member 7. Said member may be apart of the handle 2 itself, as shown in Figures I and V,- for instance, or it'may be a separate-block of glass :8, as

shown in Figure VI. The-choice of the kind of member 7, will depend, in part, upon Whether, in manufacture,- the handle "is molded'on the body, in the making of the body, or whetherit is stuck on it -aft er' :The body 1, being provided as aforesaid with a suitable member 7 of any sort, is

provided on its handle side with a neck9," that isto say, with an external surfaceof regularconformation which is, at least in part, preferably cylindrical. Over the top of the neck fits a fixed portion 10 of a cover,

which includes, besides the portion 10, a'

lid 11 hin ed thereto in any usualmanner, for examp e that indicated at 12. A thumbhandle 15 from the id 11, and preferably constitutes way common in the art, about the pintle pin 17 which operatively unites theparts 10 and I 11 of the cover.

In the fixed portion 10 of the cover, in

conjunction with a body 1 adapted substantially as specified for its accommodation, are

found the distinctive features of my invention.

" They include a skirt 18 on the cover-portion 10, which being composed of resilient.

metal is made to clamp, with snug fit and frictional engagement, upon the outside of the neck 9. The medial rear portion of the skirt 18 is provided with an opening made to receive and hold with snug fit the member 7 To that end, I prefer to 7 form in the sheet metal of which'the skirt projects upwardly and rearwardly I a guard to a spring 16, coiled, in any usual 9 I 18 is preferably made two intersecting slits 19 and 20, one vertical and the other horizontal. the slit 19 and measured by the length of the slit 20 is afterwards, along lines 21 parallel to the line of the slit 19, bent outwardly so as to form jaws 23 and 24., Said aws are made to fit the opposite sidewalls of the member 7, and may suflice, through frictional. contact only, to hold the cover-portion -10 insubstantially fixedv relationship thereto.

.Thefunction of the jaws 23 and 2 1 is twofold; They not only serve to hold the cover-portion against any coaxial movement about the neck 9, but also to prevent disengaging movement of the skirt 18 rearwardly upon. the neck 9. In, respect to the latter function, I prefer also to provide, besides frictional engagement, means 1 for positive engagement of the jaws'with the member 7.

In that regard, the opposite sides of the member 7 may be provided with skirt-engaging means, such, for example, as shallow groovesor scores 25 adapted to take in inturned lips 26 on the respective jaws; or, to the same effect, the member may be provided with shoulders 28 which-define between them and the neck 9 shallow vertical,-

ly disposed recesses for the snug reception of the jaws, as shown for example in Figure V.

"The skirt 18 extends, at its opposite ends,

beyond-the superposed pintle-pinli, asindicated at 30.

The operation of my invention may briefly described as follows. v. The body 1 being provided. of the shape desired, a;cover,is selected to. correspond thereto,; and they are assembled by slipping The portion of the skirt dividedby the skirt 18 of the cover-portion 10 upon the neck 9. Efi'ectual engagement between the neck 9 and the ends of the two parts of the said skirt, divided as specified by the presence in it of the rearward medial open- 11 against the resistance of the spring '16,

as often .as occasion demands. In that connection, let it be noted that said pressure has the effect of perfecting and maintaining the assemblage of the'body 1 with the portion 10 of the cover, the extension of the ends of the skirt 18, as indicated at 30, being sufficient to limit the relative movement of the lid 11, and to prevent any tendency of the spring 16 to lift the part- 10, which might otherwise occur through theactuation of the spring in closing the lid 11. What I claim is: A

A container comprising a body having an exterior lateral projection adjacent its upper end,- a relatively stationary'cover section having a depending marginal skirt, of substantially U-shape, embracing'the body,

a substantially T-shaped slit being formed my hand. 7 v

v I CHARLES. S. BARON. 

